Early morning sun in the backyard

Four beautiful water lilies. I'll try to catch them open later today.
Red berries on my "little" tree in the garden. All of a sudden that tree isn't so little anymore. Hmmm. Time to rethink the garden layout!?

This time of day, everything is quiet and new. The dew makes the morning cool, but I know it's gonna be a hot July "dog day" of summer today!

I love early morning summer sun!

I've had this hybiscus plan for about 12 years, bringing it in each winter. It loves the heat!

One of my favorite subjects to photograph... the farm across the street through the pine trees.

June Garden

Every spring I weed and then thin my perennial the garden thinking "Oh, this won't be to crowded!" But look at the hostas, the ferns, spider wort, and my yellow flowers, tall flowers and other things I don't even know the name of! Talk about crowded!

In fact I cut my hosta in half and took out about a third of the yellow flowers to give to my sister when she was visiting this spring. Wow, didn't even make a dent! I think it came back stronger!

Lovely Yucca Flowers

This Yucca plant is especially beautiful to me because my dear Mother in Law gave it to me years ago.
This is the first year that it has really bloomed and it is spectacular! I split it a few times and all the off shoots have this wonderful bloom!

Deer Eating My Flowers

I glanced out the window a few minutes ago and there is a deer eating my flowers.

Even with our Lucky dog, we still have the critters visiting our back yard.

Big Bad Storm 4 years ago

Can you say "Dorothy"?

We've had a few storms this summer, but nothing like the storm that hit in 2006.
It's funny to see how much the trees have grown in just 4 years!


A few minutes later, lightning hit. Broadband stopped when my ethernet card got fried.

This is what it looked like just a few minutes before the big storm.

Day Lilies in Bloom by the Coop

All those beautiful orange faces of the common ditch lilies... oops! I mean day lilies!

Lemon Drops with a Black Eyed Susan Sneaking in

Hudson Ohio Festival Days!

I like to call it Hudson Garden days, because gardeners from miles around come in to town to tour 6 or 7 Hudson gardens. Our town is always especially beautiful this weekend!

Tonight is the Ice Cream social and tommorow is the BBQ cook-off.

Love the Peonies

Peonies in bloom! With just the hint of the Ladies Mantle in the bottom right.

Poppy Day: Happy Birthday Ben!

Four Poppies in bloom with more buds to open later today!
As Grinny always said, "The poppies always on Ben's Birthday, so these are what I call the Ben Flower."
May 28,2009

From seed packets from Linda!

Sunrise at the Farm

What a difference 3 months makes from a Cold Misty Morning!

I love Purple Flowers in May

Love how the blooms are really in full majesty!


Early May... not as pretty...

Capturing a Honey Bee Swarm

Keith got the bees out of a really tall tree in our backyard.

Here's some photos from the swarm of honeybees that escaped from one of the hives last week and a post of a swarm from two years ago. Seems like the bees like to swarm from the beehives in late May or early June.

Early Poppy Flower

Ben's first flower was early this year!!


thanks Linda!!

Catching a Swarm

Click on these photos to get up close and personal with our bees. Thanks Ben for the photos!

There They Are!

Shake 'em Loose

Safe In the Can

Purple Columbine

Donzell's Garden Center in Akron Ohio

Donzell's does a great job with their displays and spring is no except. Its great to drive into their place and see all these friendly pansy faces greeting you!!
I love their pansy display as you drive into their Akron location on Waterlou near Arlinton Road.

Sunrise

Lilac Bushes from the Deck

Chickens in the Morning

I went out when the sun was coming up at about 6:30, but the chickens were already wide awake and outside. It was chilly too!